I believe I can fly....

I believe I can fly....

A humpback whale photographed outside Tromsø, Norway by Karl-Otto Jacobsen.

I have no idea how big this one is, but they can be up to 19m long and 40 metric tons. It must have been a fantastic experience to see this.

Deleting The Digital Divide One Computer at a Time

Deleting The Digital Divide One Computer at a Time

Ken Starks really lives for this. Helping kids get a computer to get a good start climbing that digital divide.

He runs Reglue, an organization that puts Linux based refurbished computers in the hands of families that need it.  They are running their yearly funding campaign. They have reached $3000 of their $9000 goal. We can help him do that.

If you are abroad like me and don't want to waste money on shipping you can buy the Time Weaver chronicles for just $10 as a non-DRM'ed ebook. I already have it, but bought a new one to legally give away. I don't have to steal at these prices. ;-) Or you can buy a tux or two and just tell Ken to give it away with one of the PC's.

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deleting-the-digital-divide-one-computer-at-a-time
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/deleting-the-digital-divide-one-computer-at-a-time

Design your own pulp fiction front pages using the pulp-o-mizer

Design your own pulp fiction front pages using the pulp-o-mizer

http://thrilling-tales.webomator.com/derange-o-lab/pulp-o-mizer/pulp-o-mizer.html

opening up in git from the start, using apache license, and not their own, building on and cooperating with LXC and...

opening up in git from the start, using apache license, and not their own, building on and cooperating with LXC and Docker...

Step back, give them space and let us see if this is a new canonical emerging. Show them some love when they do it right.

Originally shared by Steven Vaughan-Nichols

Some straight talk from Canonical's brass and tech on what's what with LXD.
http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-lxd-not-a-docker-replacement-a-docker-enhancement-7000035463/

All about that base - no rebels

All about that base - no rebels

Originally shared by Jesús S

It wouldn't be the internet if there wasn't a Star Wars parody of "All About That Bass"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV5WqRnFejI&feature=share

Remember, remember

Remember, remember
the fifth of november
the gunpowder treason and plot.
I can think of no reason
the gunpowder treason
should ever be forgot.

It's Guy Fawkes night tonight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Windsor_castle_guyfawkesnight1776.jpg/1280px-Windsor_castle_guyfawkesnight1776.jpg

Translation of heroine

Translation of heroine

Yesterday my 8 year old daughter and 9 year old son were sitting in the back seat of the car discussing names of minecraft servers. They correctly deduced a norwegian translation of "Hide and Seek" all on their own, and i was rather pleased. Then the boy asked about "Heroine", and his sister replied "I know that. Heroine is a girl with big boobs in a bikini".

There is no objectification or sexualisation in computer games, no. We can clearly see that. And all we need is more responsibility in journalism. Right.

This is not the values i want the gaming industry to teach my children. Of course we had a talk to put things straight, but this should not be the first thing a girl thinks of as a heroine.

I hope it is rather clear by now that i think points raised by Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian are important, and need to be discussed. And everyone supporting #gamergate should go talk to a grown-up about these matters before ever posting about them again.

(image from "Dead or Alive 5")